The University of California, Merced was awarded a $826,615 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on quantum computation of chemistry and materials on noisy intermediate-scale quantum hardware. The award commenced on February 1, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by January 31, 2026. The research seeks to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $600,000.00 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of California, Merced. The award funds a research project titled "EXCITON SELF-TRAPPING IN LOW-DIMENSIONAL ORGANIC METAL HALIDE HYBRID MATERIALS FROM GW/BETHE-SALPETER CALCULATIONS AND MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED FORCE FIELDS" with a performance period from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026. The research...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $798,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) on July 15, 2024. The grant funds a research project titled "Synthesis of Thin Films Using Cryogenic MBE Processes," with a completion date of July 14, 2025. As a renowned public research university and Hispanic-Serving Institution, UCSB will leverage its expertise in materials science, quantum...
The University of California, Merced received a $750,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "UNDERSTANDING THE DEFORMABILITY OF BIOLOGICAL FILAMENTS FROM THEIR ATOMISTIC LEVEL DETAILS" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant will fund research examining the deformability of biological filaments through analysis of their atomic structure to gain a deeper understanding of their material...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $920,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for fundamental high energy physics research. The award period runs from July 1, 2024 to April 30, 2026. As a leading research university, UC Berkeley will leverage its expertise across scientific disciplines to advance national priorities in energy, economics, and security through...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $330,000 supports theoretical and computational research by the University of California, Merced to describe and understand the behavior of biologically-inspired active solids. The research aims to create models that combine mechanical and chemical factors to investigate the unique shape changes and self-organization phenomena possible in active solids, such as those found in cell...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $563,341 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to conduct research on the "Topochemical Reactivity of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Magnetoelectronic Materials". The award period runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025. The funded research aims to advance...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) provides $884,696.00 to the University of California, Merced to conduct research on electronic materials for integrated nanophotonics. The performance period for this award is from April 21, 2025 to April 20, 2029. As a Hispanic-serving institution, UC Merced will leverage its expertise in areas such as climate science, quantum computing, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research to better understand how isolated, self-propelled swimmers, such as autonomous underwater vehicles and microorganisms, are transported in unsteady fluid flows. The project will leverage dynamical systems theory to analyze stable and unstable manifolds, invariant tori,...
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been awarded a $563,319.06 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on "LEVERAGING MACROCYCLIC CHELATORS FOR RARE EARTH ELEMENT SEPARATIONS". The grant, which began on January 1, 2025, and is set to be completed by December 31, 2025, supports fundamental scientific research aimed at advancing U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities...